If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.

Quote by Andrew Greeley

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(The Catholic Church must) clean out the pedophiles, break up the gay cliques, tighten up...

(The Catholic Church must) clean out the pedophiles, break up the gay cliques, tighten up...

I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a...

I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a...

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they...

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they...

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women...

In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women...

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind...

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind...

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than...

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than...

There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues...

There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues...

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who...

I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who...

Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey...

Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey...

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the...

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the...

The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is...

The kernel is the belief that God is love and, in Catholicism, God's love is...

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very...

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very...

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You...

You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You...

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be...

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be...

I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And...

I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And...

Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.

Nobody puts constraints on God. She doesn't like it.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try...

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try...

Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married...

Yet, if the most frequent sex and apparently the best sex is that between married...